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WORD PUZZLES
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$200
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Begins many a story
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Once upon a time
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$400
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A comfortable position for kids
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criss-cross applesauce
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$600
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Something done continuously, all day & all night
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around the clock
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$800
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REENIGNE Figure out how something was made
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reverse engineer
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$1000
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Bette Davis said, "Fasten your seat belts; it's gonna be" this
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a bumpy night
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THIS IS THE WAY
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$200
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It's pretty much a straight 8-hour shot up I-5 to go the 500 miles from San Diego to this capital
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Sacramento
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$400
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You leave Big Sky on Route 64 but may cut some of the 4-hour drive on I-15 to Great Falls, as you can legally go 80 in this state
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Montana
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$600
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Drive your Jaguar out of Jacksonville on I-95 south & I-4 for a couple of hours to this city to enjoy attractions like EPCOT
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Orlando
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$800
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Motor north on Route 7 out of Middlebury & a bit under an hour later, you'll be in Burlington in this state
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Vermont
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$1000
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Leaving Las Vegas, but not casinos? Zip north up Route 95, then west on I-80 to enjoy this seat of Washoe County
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Reno
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FAMILIAR SOUNDING TRIOS
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$200
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Slang for money, literature's Mr. Bradbury, the objective case of I
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dough, Ray, me
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$400
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Peter Pan's foe, a facial wrinkle & a pitch that results in ground balls
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Hook, line & sinker
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$600
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For example: ferret, fennel or fluorite
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animal, vegetable or mineral
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$800
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A hair ringlet, a certificate share in a corporation & the tube of a gun
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lock, stock & barrel
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$1000
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Last name of actress Cathy Lee, static photos & the car company that made the Rambler
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Crosby, stills & Nash
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PEASANT UNDER GLASS
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$200
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Like many peasant uprisings, one led by Kasuke in 1686 aimed to have these lowered; a museum in Nagano is devoted to the events
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taxes
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$400
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An Oxford University museum has a Swedish peasant bridal shoe made partly of skin from this kind of deer
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reindeer
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$600
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The Museum of the Romanian Peasant has these decorated foodstuffs; traditionally you tap one and say "Christ is risen"
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an Easter egg
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$800
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The National Museum of Ireland has many a slane, a spade with which peasants cut turf from this 3-letter type of wetland
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a bog
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$1000
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Italy's Peasant & Farming Culture Museum has exhibits on this low-THC plant, originally grown for rope for Venetian ships
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hemp
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SPORTS BOOKS
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$200
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Roger Kahn's 1972 bestseller "The Boys of Summer" is a nostalgic look at this team before it headed west
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the (Brooklyn) Dodgers
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$400
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The basis for a movie & TV series, this bestseller is subtitled "A Town, a Team, and a Dream"
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Friday Night Lights
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$600
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"Levels of the Game" is John McPhee's book about one 1968 tennis match between Clark Graebner & this African-American champion
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Arthur Ashe
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$800
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In her memoir, this basketball coach wrote, "In 2011, I was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease"
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Pat Summitt
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$1000
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Dick Francis was best known for writing mystery novels involving this sport
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horse racing
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TIME TO FALL INTO AUTUMN
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$200
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Baby Boo & autumn gold are varieties of this gourd that's popular during fall holidays
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a pumpkin
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$400
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An early version of this tradition was in Nov. 1911 when the U. of Missouri's athletic director had alumni visit for the Kansas game
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homecoming
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$600
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As fall begins in North America, so does this zodiac sign
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Libra
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$800
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In the 8th century November 1 emerged as this holy day to honor the entirety of the canonized
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All Saints Day
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$1000
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From the Latin for "fall off", this adjective describes trees that lose their leaves in fall
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deciduous
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HISTORY
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$400
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In 2007 King Abdullah met with Benedict XVI, the first meeting ever between a pope & a monarch of this country
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Saudi Arabia
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$800
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Hi, neighbor; seen here with Francisco Franco is António de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of this country from 1932 to 1968
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Portugal
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$1200
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Wildly exaggerating his frontier exploits, the 1831 play "The Lion of the West" helped make this Tennessean a national hero
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(Davy) Crockett
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$1600
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A type of jacket was popularized by this first prime minister of India
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Nehru
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$2000
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In 1588, England lost this port city, its last possession in France
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Calais
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THE BOOK OF WHO
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$400
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Written as a parable, a business classic by Spencer Johnson asks "Who Moved My" this
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Cheese
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$800
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Neurologist Oliver Sacks shared some interesting case histories in "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a" this
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a Hat
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$1200
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"Who I Am" is a candid autobiography by this guitarist/songwriter for The Who
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Townshend
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$1600
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Finally published in its entirety in 2021, "The Man Who Lived Underground" is by this late author of "Native Son"
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Richard Wright
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$2000
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John le Carre received a warm reception & international acclaim with this 1963 novel
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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EPIDEMIOLOGY
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$400
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This 3-letter epidemiological organization is located in Atlanta on land provided by Emory University
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the CDC
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$800
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Epidemiologists use this 4-letter word for a person who harbors a pathogen; it's no party to be one
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a host
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$1200
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It once caused 1/4 of poisonings in U.S. kids under 5, but fear of Reye syndrome has reduced that as the tots get less of it
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aspirin
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$1600
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Before it described a cancer treatment, this word coined by Paul Ehrlich was used for Salvarsan, a cure for syphilis
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chemotherapy
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$2000
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A 1747 clinical trial showed that citrus fruits help prevent this nutritional disease
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scurvy
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5-LETTER FOODS
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$400
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Oui, it's a thin pancake
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a crepe
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$800
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Da! It's a buckwheat pancake
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a blini
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$1200
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A prehistoric cave painting in Spain is perhaps the earliest known evidence of human collection of this
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honey
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$1600
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Nissin's Cup Noodles is an instant version of this Japanese noodle soup
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ramen
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$2000
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This type of pear is also an alternate name for the Plantagenet dynasty
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Anjou
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SPOKEN WORDS IN CLASSIC SONGS
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$400
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"We are young... heartache to heartache, we stand... no promises, no demands... love is a battlefield" (then she kicks in hard)
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Pat Benatar
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$800
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In the video: "These 3 people will compete today on 'Jeopardy!"'
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"Weird Al" Yankovic
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$1200
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This band: "Number 9... number 9... number 9..." it goes on like that for a while
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The Beatles
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$1600
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Phil Rizzuto's call: "Squeeze play, it's gonna be close... here's the play at the plate, holy cow, I think he's gonna make it!"
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Meat Loaf
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$2000
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"Stumblin' on my feet, shufflin' through the street, asking people... 'What's the matter whichoo, boy?'"
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The Rolling Stones
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"OI"!
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$400
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It means to raise up, like a flag
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hoist
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$800
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Senator William Marcy popularized the phrase "To the victor belong" these
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the spoils
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$1200
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From the material traditionally used to make films, it's a nostalgic word for a motion picture
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celluloid
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$1600
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In his "Funeral Oration", Pericles used this rhyming term, Greek for "the many"
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hoi polloi
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$2000
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It's a fancy name for ring toss
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quoits
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WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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N/A
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This country of 16,600 square miles has a possession that's more than 50 times as large
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Denmark
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